Laura Osnes?

OlBlueEyes said: "She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

Crazy for You isn't dead, she said something about waiting for a theater, but Susan Stroman is in Seattle with Marie, Still Dancing, and then it looks like she'll spend the rest of the year working on this DreamWorksspectacular to premiere in Macau in December.

The five-time Tony Award winnerSusan Stromanwill bring her legendary talents, as director, to one of the most successful animated films of all time, Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda Spectacular Live is set to transform the entertainment landscape in Macau. Performances are scheduled to commence in late December 2019 at The Venetian Theatre in Macau, with casting information and ticket details to be announced soon.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Susan-Stroman-Willliam-Ivey-Long-and-More-To-Stage-KUNG-FU-PANDA-Live-in-Macau-20190408"

Thank you! I was just curious.

OlBlueEyes said: "She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

A year or so after she finished Cinderella, I asked her what role she’d most like to play if she had her choice of any role in the history of Broadway musicals, and she told me that it was Marian the Librarian. So I’m guessing she was really excited about that possibility

But Sutton is a much better soprano so it makes sense that...oh wait...

"I was going to answer Bandstand but that was a period piece as you knew.

Ran four or five months and Andy Blankenbuehler won the Tony for choreography.

You could have swapped in returning Vietnam vets for returning World War Two vets but even something on Vietnam is pretty much a period piece."

Loved Bandstand and her performance in that show, wished it would have run longer. Quickly thinking about it, it seems to me most Broadway musicals are period pieces so it may not be that easy to find role she liked that is current.

massofmen said: "But Sutton is a much better soprano so it makes sense that...oh wait..."

Sutton is correct for the part, nothing else to say. She has a personality, it goes a very long way.

I saw Laura and Steven perform Carousel in Chicago. That should have transferred, they were incredible and their chemistry (unlike Jessie and Joshua) was electric. Those voices!!!

Those who saw Sutton dominate Anything Goes, but did not see her in Violet, can perhaps be forgiven for not understanding her range. I saw a couple of the early episodes of her first series, "Bunheads," and I was surprised that it was not renewed. They didn't know what they had.

EllieRose2 said: "I saw Laura and Steven perform Carousel in Chicago. That should have transferred, they were incredible and their chemistry (unlike Jessie and Joshua) was electric. Those voices!!!"

If there was one role that I thought the relentlessly cheerful Ms. Osnes could not play, it would have been quiet and melancholy Julie Jordan. But she and the show were well-received.

Osnes, who mostly has been stuck with one-dimensional ingenues and princesses thus far in her career, affords Julie a pervasive sense of melancholy — if there is one show where an actress can get away with playing the end from the beginning, this is that show. But Osnes also offers a very striking window into Julie's determination to separate from her peers, manifest vocally through the exiting crescendo she constructs for such famous lyrics as "Round in circles I'd go," where the resilience in the musical swell undermines the lyrical expression of doubt. -- Chris Jones

There is a YouTube video of Stephen and Laura performing the bench scene, but without costume or set.

A few seemed interested, so here is the bench scene with Laura and Steven Pasquale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XNQqKP-zk

After just seeing this clip, I think that Steven would rank very high on my list of Billys. I also think I have a better understanding of "chemistry" between characters.

Here is just a one minute excerpt from the first appearance of Laura and Tony Yazbeck at 54 Below.

https://youtu.be/IQ0pandrBPE?t=389

Believe it or not, Laura just did the recent developmental sessions for DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH. Unclear as to which role. Seems odd, but lot can happen between now and summer 2020.

MollyJeanneMusic said: "Is the Music Man revival a Roundabout revival or not? If it isn't, I could see Laura coming in to play Marian after Sutton leaves, kind of like the Benanti/Ambrose thing with My Fair Lady."

No, Not Roundabout. I don't think that Roundabout could afford Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. it's produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Jerry Zaks.